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Measuring how well activities are done in meeting goals. Proficiency of skills, choice of skills, and ability to execute are all components here. Generally the questions will be about maximizing one's performance or ability to perform tasks.

So, I'm a personal productivity nerd:
I meditate for better focus
I track water intake
I assign points to tasks, keep a track of them
I use habit formation apps (Routinely, HabitRPG
I use rescuetime ...

My level of English is reasonably high (c2) however due to it not being my mother language I still suffer some handicapping when reading texts in it(for example some specifications or more technical ...

Does anybody know a good app/web site being able of tracking accomplishments in detail? I have a lot of stuff that I'm working on right now, but I beginning to feel that I need some tracking. The most ...

I have to take some competition exams in the few upcoming months regarding a job in the government sector. I've taken this kind of exams before, but failed to score enough (need to score approximately ...

Like many people I tend to be impatient when it comes to my personal productivity. I want to to adopt a couple of big changes that will see may productivity shoot up over night. But in many cases we ...

As a college student, I had my shares of failures in exams, courses, quite a handful of it, so much that it resulted in my one year extension in the university. With this I feel that my past failures ...

Context: I am working on adapting agile to my life as a student, I have even brought together a few other students to do standups and get feedback as might be found within agile.
From my experience ...

I am into software development and an individual contributor in the team working from off-shore. My manager is onsite and he assigns work to be on calls. The project is in very initial stage so I am ...

I need help. I am a software engineer but i didn't opt for this career by will. I did it because of family pressure. I wanted to be a cricketer.
I have got good results in all my exams and also been ...

There are several weeks in each year when my productivity drops to zero because of hay fever. I basically can't think about any productive solution for this problem.
I am a programmer. It's not just ...

If I want to study N different subjects what would be the best strategy to do this?
One extreme would be to take only one subject first and devote all of my free time to study it, then after I'm done ...

What is a good way of cultivating patience?
I feel that the impatience (the urge to get done with things irrespective of quality) severely hampers my productivity. I tend to have to redo the things ...

Most of the time, I stay up late until midnight and do things that I want to complete. However, I get 7-8 hours of sleep a day.
My normal weekday routine is as follows:
Wake up at 8am and go to work. ...

I was just reading this article http://business.time.com/2012/04/26/stop-working-more-than-40-hours-a-week
If what they are saying in this article is true, doesn't that mean that working on personal ...

Some people have an ability to speak their minds so clearly it can be understood from a distance, even though they're not exactly speaking louder than anyone else. On the other hand, many people are ...

I find that sweeping a bathroom floor when it is wet is very hard. When wet, dust and hairs tend to stick to the floor, making them very hard to sweep up. Furthermore, they tend to get stuck in the ...

I read in Steve Jobs's book that he used to avoid coffee during the week and drink lots of water to remain productive and energetic throughout the day.
I would like to know what food and beverages to ...

People come at me frequently asking questions about computers. It can be flattering at first but you know they are coming back with the most absurd questions because they don't know enough to figure ...

I need to study hard for a month, more than 10 hours/day. The problem is, I cannot concentrate on what I'm reading more than 15 minutes. I lose concentration easily while reading. the most important ...

Maybe odd question, but I think I have an odd productivity problem. I lose the will to finish my projects at work when I have very little to do. I am more used to fast-paced environments that keep me ...

When producing blog posts, even when it is only a few paragraphs, takes me a long time. Most of my time seems to be spent converting my ideas into writing. It is really hard to write something that ...